Sometimes you actually just need a job that can pay bills, and you have to take what you can get for a moment until you can refocus to pursue your real goals.

Becoming a barista is not the final career step in anyone's life plan, and it's really annoying when people look at young retail workers as if they're hopelessly dead-ended with no options, or as if "oh, something went irreparably wrong here."

I needed to hear(read) this right now as someone 9 months out of school cooking for BWW because I haven’t been able to get anything else. So, thank you for reminding me this doesn’t have to last forever.

Skyrim's wonky progression made the game stale pretty fast. Smithing skill is pretty much mandatory to play on high difficulties. Playing on high difficulties (expert, master, legendary) is only hard up to a certain level (between 40 and 50) and then everything is ridiculously easy...Apart from the Ebony Warrior and legendary dragons.

Mind you, the Ebony Warrior (as long as one isn't being super cheesy and shouting him off a cliff) is easy, too. Don't use heavy swings cause he has Heavy Armour perk to deflect 100% damage back 10% of the time. After that, it's just fight and win by attrition.

/rant

That's not to say I hated playing Skyrim. In fact, that's my only major gripe about the game and it can be overcome by handicaps and even some mods.

I'd love to see Oblivion style difficulty again. Mind you, I haven't played since I was younger and I imagine me being bad at video games was an attributing factor. I'd also like to see Shivering Isles levels of DLC. Haven't played many DLCs as good as Shivering Isles (maybe Borderlands 1 or 2?).

For anyone who reads this and hasn't played Oblivion (and you have a 360 or PS3 or PC[EDIT: or Xbox One]) give Oblivion a go. Try and overlook the graphics and the occasional crashes and you'll have a blast.

I looked it up and got a lot of “oblivion coming to PS Now” from last month. But there was also a forum question about why it was missing from PS Now but that was also a month ago. There was a YouTube video about playing it on PS so...my answer is that it is a possibility that it’s on PlayStation already ! Sorry I not more help.

Canada Post says Santa won't be sending as many personalized letters to kids this year, though he still wants to make sure he responds to every note he receives.

The postal agency says many children write letters to Santa both from home and from school, which gave Santa and his elves a total of 1.6 million notes to reply to last year.

To make sure kids don't get inconsistent responses, Canada Post says its program will change for letters sent from school.

Santa will sent a poster-sized group letter back to all classes that write him, with every child's name included in the note.

He'll also include a "special package of seeds from the North Pole" that teachers can use to lead a class activity. Teachers are encouraged to get their students' letters in the mail by Dec. 2.

If kids still want a personalized reply from Santa, they can still write him from home. Canada Post says children will be sure to get a response before Christmas if they mail their letter before Dec. 11.

The agency said letters written in class cannot receive a response sent to a child's home since privacy legislation bars schools from sharing student addresses.

Parents, teachers and kids wanting to write to Santa should direct their letters to Santa Claus, North Pole, H0H 0H0.